Word: saying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubles began in September 1956, when a bomb hidden in a fire extinguisher smashed the office of a Hamburg sporting-goods dealer named Otto Schlüter, killing one man. Schluter's "sporting" weapons, police say, included hand grenades and medium guns bought in Communist Czechoslovakia and destined for Algeria. Schlüter survived that first bomb attempt and a later one that buckled his Mercedes sedan and killed his mother. Frankfurt Gun-Runner Georg Puchert was not so lucky. When he started his Mercedes one morning last March, a bomb exploded squarely under him. Puchert fell dead across...
...Flight is also a study in opposites. The young daredevil, or perhaps the your Leonardo, poises on the verge of trying his wings from a cliff top overlooking Pittsburgh's Bigelow Boulevard. He defies authority and rigid conservatism (which say it cannot be done), represented in only two dimensions by the safety poster. His mother, hanging out the clothes, doubtless regards her headstrong son with mixed emotions...
Behind the Great Wall (Continental), according to its promoters, is just about the most important cinematic event since the first talkie: the first smellie that really smells right. That is to say, it is a motion picture that permits the audience not only to see and hear but also to smell what is happening on the screen. The process is called AromaRama* ("You must breathe it to believe it"), and it could be guaranteed, on the basis of its first showing, to turn even a good movie into something of a stinker...
Although he did not say so, the Pope's immediate target was clearly Italy's gamy popular press, which licks its chops over each new scandal, e.g., last week's story of the couple in Rome, run over and killed while making love on the railroad tracks. Rome's press, while giving the Pope's admonitions good play, implied that he was merely suggesting self-control. "Self-regulation," said Rome's Il Tempo, "is without doubt the best medicine," went on to absolve itself from the Pope's accusations. Most other leading papers...
LUCIUS CLAY does not rest on his fame or his contacts (Continental has little Government business) to earn his $150,000 yearly salary. "Does he run the company?" asks a Continental executive. "I'll say he does. Not just 100% - about 106%." Clay has a photographic memory that enables him to keep track of minute details, often confounds others with his knowledge. He is a relentlessly driving executive who needs little sleep, maintains iron discipline, is never wholly satisfied with the performance of his subordinates (all of whom address him as "general"). Says an old friend: "He is still...